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 Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 11:59 pm
Well, it begins as a series under that name but then it changes throughout the course of ten books. I think that Terry Goodkind is pretty good, I have tried to digest other readers but he is one of the few that has managed to keep my attention spam in one place.
And I have tried a LOT of books, but I usually end up reading the first few chapters and then I get bored...
Anyways there are still one more book that Terry will publish, the end, so i think that would make 13... I am not sure though, I read the latest book a year ago, so I am simply losing track of these things smile
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Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 1:27 pm
I've been a big fan of the Sword of Truth series for several years now. I even have an autographed post card from a convention and I used to have a rare collector's edition of Debt of Bones but it was stolen sad
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Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 3:41 pm
I kind of lost interest after Faith of the Fallen. Wizards First Rule was good enough for me and Stone of Tears was a nice follow up. The most interesting part of the setting to me was how Prophecy was handled.
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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:09 pm
Wait, 13 Books?
I know there are the 10 SoT books, the upcoming book 11 called "Confessor" and "Debt of Bones". What is the other one?
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 10:53 pm
Has anyone heard anything about the final book? All I know is that it is titled "Confessor" but nothing else.
I'm dying to hear any little thing that won't spoil the book.
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 6:53 pm
hmmmmmmmmmmmm so i take it this is a good series then?
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Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 3:32 am
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Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 2:33 pm
I found the series rather mediocre.
WFR started as cream cheese on white fantasy. Predictable enough that I put it down about half way through. I went back through and finished it 2 years later and was pleasantly surprised. The end was decently written and interesting enough to make it worth picking up SoT.
That one started out somewhat interesting (though what sort desperate straits an author needs to be in before he rips off Robert Jordan I don't even want to know) but the end read like the author got an email from his agent saying "ok, I've promised the publisher that we can go to print the day after tomorrow so you'd better get on it". The plot lines aren't so much resolved as just randomly terminated and the final section feels insanely rushed.
My family owns BotF so I'll probably pick it up someday but I don't care enough to go looking for it (and I'm in the middle of several other superior series right now in any case).
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Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 4:28 pm
I think Epic called it. The series does not really get better as it goes on. Wizards First Rule really was the high point. After that is really just seemed like everything was an excuse to make the main characters suffer even more. Blood of the Fold is really about as far as you want to read.
The plot lines aren't terminated per say. They are just moved into the next book, and the next, and the next, and the next... and so on. Soul of the Fire really kind of killed for me, kind of "killed the magic" as it were.
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Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 7:52 am
Quote: The plot lines aren't terminated per say. They are just moved into the next book, and the next, and the next, and the next... and so on. Soul of the Fire really kind of killed for me, kind of "killed the magic" as it were. There is that but I also meant the ones that actually do resolve. Half the book is spent building up the conflict between Richard and super wizard guy and when it comes the resolution takes a whole sentence. The same with the rest of the academy plotlines. Then you find out that they weren't the main climax at all and the book scoots a few hundred miles over for another paragraph or so. It really does feel as if TG fell asleep, woke up the morning the book was supposed to go to print, and finished it in the half hour he had spare.
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